Amida-do dayori2002

Oume:
When it rains and I can't get around much, I don't sleep very well.

Takao Ueda:
What do you do then?

Oume:
Then I just listen to the water flowing over there and imagine that I was water, too. I think of myself just flowing along, and suddenly there I am asleep.

Oume:
When you turn to water, where do you flow to?

Oume:
Well, I flow with the water ... way, way, far away ... and about time I'm thinking I've reached the sea, there I am asleep.

Michiko Ueda:
We hear the sound of the river every night, but I don't feel like that.

Oume:
You're both still young. You've still got to listen to a lot of things. The river's there, and you have to hear it ... but the sound of water's no use to you. It's something for old folks to listen to.